WHATCHU WORKIN' ON? TELL US!

author=SnowOwl
Here's a great tutorial, if you're interested:
http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11299

That was a great read. Thanks! I made a heart.



I won't be bothering the readers of this thread with my sprites from now on, don't worry :)

Currently working on my ice dungeon, so to speak. Not sure how many maps there will be or the exact layout of the dungeon, as this one is going to be pretty strict on how it's going to be designed. You see, throughout this dungeon, there are ice blocks. To get through these ice blocks, you must use an item that you get during a cutscene at the start of the dungeon (when you HAVE to go there. You won't get it any earlier). This item has X charges (X to be determined yet), and after so many charges, the player will need to refill it at a refill spot. The spot may be on the previous screen, there may be one in the same map. There's probably going to be just enough charges, give or take 1 or 2 extra charges, to get from one side to the other, or enough to get to another refill spot to continue on. However, there's also obviously going to be deadends and treasure to be found in the area. In addition to the ice blocks, there may be ice patches which forces the player to slide forward until they hit solid ground or a wall. There won't be any pits or anything of the sort here, it's not a Legend of Zelda game after all and a FF-styled game, and there's nothing to really put under the tundra area that I'd want to put so...

So yeah, that's what I'm trying to work on. And I'm not sure how to go about doing so! Anyone have any good suggestions on what to do with this place? It's one of the first actual legit puzzle dungeons in the game (excluding Eientei and any mazes...I guess it makes it a legit puzzle dungeon without any annoying mazes or multiple stuff in it?), and I'd like for it to be challenging (there are random encounters yes. Mostly fire and ice enemies...in a frozen tundra basically), but I don't want it to stretch on TOO long (the game's already pretty long as it is, but still got a lot more to do before it's fully done) and avoid it being TOO annoying...

@CharlieEnd It looks like Raticate. But I think your shading on his whiskers and tail is a bit off. Try lowering the saturation on those colours or something (I think).

Looking lovely as usual! I think my only complaint is that in the bottom screenshot, you can see where the light coming in doesn't diffuse in a radius but just goes straight through. It should go around the corners of the entrance, too.

After weeks of toiling, we've finally got the first screenshot of our contest entry ready:



My one regret with this map is that I had to turn off displacement, which when enabled made the kitchen tiles pop a lot more. Unfortunately, displacement jacked the render time up from 38 hours to 60 and I just didn’t have that much time.

Currently re-doing my main character's sprite sheet, due to her current sprite being too big for the tile-sets I'm using. That's about the only thing I can work on now, considering my computer is being fixed at the moment (I'm borrowing a friend's laptop).

So basically, a whole lot of nothing...

I'm having a bit of a conundrum with mapping right now. Since I recently finished several dungeons (Valley of Corpses, Valley of Corpses - Dimensional Rift, Frozen Fields, Frozen Fields - Dimensional Rift, Makai Battlefield, and Makai Caves), and since I'm having someone doing the Ruins of Vina for me, I decided to skip a few dungeons and go ahead and do the 3rd to last dungeon for beta5, since it's only 10 floors tall (not very big floors mind you) and needs revamped in its current maps...

However, I'm having trouble accurately displaying it like its canon self...




It doesn't seem like it'd be bad for a shrine, as it's meant to be, but when you compare it to this:




It is extremely lackluster and I'm not sure if this tileset is good enough to work with this. It works fine for the Hakurei Shrine, as well as the Moriya Shrine, but it doesn't work at all for the Myouren Temple, and I've NO idea what tileset would even work. I could use a bit of help on this particular map itself, that I can. The inside portion of the dungeon, I SHOULD be able to do (I've handled other dungeons fine on my own)...just THIS freaking map man. @_@;


EDIT - Take two on this...a bit closer, but still not sure??

Probably will. Also, I trimmed down the map. Compare!

Original map size: 70x55
New map size: 28x33

A loooooot of space removed that didn't need to be there. The entrance to the graveyard will be somewhere in the back of the temple I think on this map. Oh, and update real quick on that, since this should be the last one needed for this map before touching up on it myself (dunno if I'll go with the flag idea or not). I'm just hoping this isn't TOO similar to the Hakurei/Moriya Shrine maps...that's my only beef.



That's the last screenshot I'll show for this particular map. Any other for Myouren Temple will probably be for the inside, which I still need to get a different tileset for. It doesn't seem like this temple is going to have 10 floors either does it? But that's what it's supposed to be (upwards too, not downwards). @_@;;

It still looks a bit ugly, but trying to figure out what to do for the wall parts to simulate there being higher elevation, as this tileset doesn't have an easy way to handle elevation. >_>;

author=yuna21
Finished up a rather challenging 40-min long dungeon, mapped several new areas for Vol II of Enelysion and hit the 9 hour playtime mark ( which makes the game just 3 hours shy of its goal of 12 hours ). It's all ending too fast. ;_;

;_; You're mapping is incredible as usual. Damn, I wish I was that good.

Although the Item "gondola/shop" in the cave perplexes me a little. XD

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On my end, got back into my main project. Finished up the intro, lots of little side scenes, redecorated the first dungeon to look like a storage area for random stuff the Fiends are collecting...

And then I rebalanced EVERYTHING and added a few new skills. I'm a LOT more satisfied with the way it plays now. ^_^

The next dungeon looks like it's going to be a pain in the ass to make, though. ;_;. It's basically a forest that changes when the phase of the moon changes (and you change it by hitting switches hidden across the place).

I also need to show what I have to someone so they can tell me if what I have is as good as I think it is.

Getting there:


I really need to get this project off the ground as well. Portrait is a WIP and still need to edit the sprite so her hairstyle matches the portrait.